Using a Burkean framework (1969), this article approaches medical dramas as cultural texts to be read for dominant meanings of health and health care. Burke's representative anecdote illuminates the melding of science, technology, and healing in popular discourses of health, establishing technological intervention as the norm and marginalizing nontechnological (i.e., alternative) forms of healt...

The article is an attempt to analyze Adam Asnyk’s poem Enchanted Princess. paper focuses on the musical adaptation of said work, melody which was composed by Mieczysław Karłowicz. Karłowicz’s interest in poetry probably spurred Julia Wieleżyńska. In one her letters she cites anecdote confirming terrible shyness towards women, as well his inclination isolation and distancing himself (even from c...